Blackwater: Shadow Army

The Nation's Jeremy Scahill describes the rise of Blackwater USA, the world's most powerful mercenary army.

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[subliminalaustralia]

Fuck blackwater/xe and monsanto

[subliminalaustralia]

@sunshinesmiles1957

You have terrorists in your back yard. And they go by the name of the US government..

Blackwater is not wonderful. They have been linked to thousands of murders and are only hired because they do not have to stick to the strict law that the army does.

[metalmatthias]

oh brave new world, so young and stupid.

[divecommando]

this is what we need, when terrorist commit genocide, do they get punsihed

so when blackwater takes out 100's of terrorist and a few civilians, yes its bad

but overall that is the way to flush out the insurgency

play dirty like the terrorist, keep capturing and interrogating terrorist at guan tanamo bay and diego garcia/ i really dont give a fuck if there waterboarder=they're terrrosit and water boarding gets results, just like the intel that was used to kill osam bin laden

we need contractors

[divecommando]

do people understand that we need black water

to beat the terrorist, you need to fight their war

our military can't do this under law

therefore we hire civilian contractors (which flat out are mercenaries, but are called contractors to try to appeal to mainstream america)

these civilian contractors aren't under military juristiction

we have moved from conventional war like our revolution to unconventional but limited by gov

contractors potentially dont have limits, this is how we beat terrorism

[KGQB12]

maybe this idiots head should be on a stick..

[KGQB12]

wake up mr. open your eyes....these people do a great job.....God bless them and keep it up...

[Cenabaseball54]

@CrimsonWilder2226 Umm Navy Seals go to Blackwater after they realize the pay is too low. Three Hundred K for a 9 month service kind of explains why they have the toughest missions

[CrimsonWilder2226]

@bxdm40 the whole world is full of people who talk instead of do anything, get it right and stop trying to act like america is the only country that does anything wrong -.-

[CrimsonWilder2226]

@Cenabaseball54 you think a merc group does missions too hard for the military? no sorry bud merc groups are used for unofficial buisness and can go outside of the "rules of war" thats it. a navy seal team could do 6x more than any merc group in the world.

[CrimsonWilder2226]

Blackwater isnt the most 'powerful' merc group but they are the most numerous.